Arthur Scargill
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True story of four women who occupied Lancashire colliery in 1993 set for run at Manchester’s Royal Exchange
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Letters: It matters much less what the Labour party policy is on our transition out of the EU, than what their policy is on the shape of the final destination
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The show’s first guest was marooned three quarters of a century ago this month. Here are the moments that made Desert Island Discs a radio classic
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‘Cowardly’ Jeremy Hunt, says the strike-supporting Daily Mirror. Doctors are squandering the public’s trust, says the government-supporting Times.
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Moderate leader of the steelworkers’ union, he led his members out on strike in 1980
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Labour MP and minister determined to take on the IRA by force during his time as Northern Ireland secretary in the 1970s
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Award-winning reporter decides to hang up his notebook
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Leader of the TUC during one of the most traumatic periods in trade union history
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On the 30th anniversary of the miners' strike, Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall talks to Simon Hattenstone about Thatcher's death, being fired from War Horse – and finding the lead for his Elton John musical
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As the anniversary of the 1984 miners' strike approaches, its figurehead Arthur Scargill has become a recluse, at war with the current NUM leadership. John Harris went in search of Yorkshire's living legend … and found him
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Letters: I welcome confirmation that Arthur Scargill's 1984 analysis of the government's plans for the mining industry have been vindicated
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Anne Scargill, ex-wife of Arthur Scargill, who led the miners during the 1984-85 strike, says she was 'really happy' to hear of Margaret Thatcher's death
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High court rules National Union of Mineworkers does not have to pay for former leader's flat for his lifetime
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The National Union of Mineworkers is fed up of forking out for their former president, but he clearly likes his home among the thrilling multi-levelled walkways, says Oliver Wainwright
Thomas Cook costs and Quaker ethics